So far I haven't really been comfortable enough with expressing my thoughts and feelings to make a forthright post in my journal. The posts that meant the most to me were two self-righteous pontifications. That changes tonight.

( What changed, and what is still changing. )

I had been curious about Touhou for some time, and thanks to Flora I was finally able to try it out. It's quite amazing. I was quite surprised at my ability to learn it as I typically have huge trouble with any game that is even moderately "twitchy." The first danmaku-genre game which I played was quite tedious or me due to all the dying. But ( Read more... )

I saw this one in 
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First post after the flurry of self-justification posts after Nina banned me from her journal ( Read more... )

Authority, roughly, is a bankrupt concept. It's right up there with individual spheres of concern as a concept that doesn't describe reality, has no logical basis, and has done far more harm than good ( Read more... )

I don't have final opinions on matters of fact. I have working opinions ( Read more... )

Senator Obama (my current favorite candidate since Governor Richardson dropped out of the race and Congressman Kucinich took to tilting at windmills) made a major speech the other day in which, among other things, he said "we are our brother's keepers." The full text of the speech is available at ( Read more... )

70% Mike Gravel
68% Bill Richardson
64% Dennis Kucinich
63% Barack Obama
63% Chris Dodd
61% John Edwards
58% Joe Biden
58% Hillary Clinton
49% Ron Paul
49% John McCain
45% Mike Huckabee
39% Mitt Romney
38% Tom Tancredo
36% Fred Thompson
29% Rudy Giuliani

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizI'm not surprised as Richardson is the one I support. He also has ( Read more... )

Can't say this result came as a complete surprise but I still was hoping for a different result..


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In the past few days, a lot of drama has been happening, and it seems like I'm at odds with someone I've long considered a friend, and I'm a bit worried about it, but it's also helped clarify a lot of my outlook on the ethics of interpersonal relationships, so here goes ( Read more... )